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New York Post Reports on Brooklyn Protest, Makes it Sound Like Apocalypse
The right-wing New York Post has beat the New York Times and other local outlets in reporting on the Brooklyn protest currently happening against the police killing of Kimani Gray. Judging by the...
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Police and Media Resort to Victim-Blaming in Shooting Death of Chicago Infant
Jonylah Watkins, just 6-months-old, was shot on Monday, March 11, on Chicago’s South Side as her dad changed her diaper in the front passenger’s seat of their minivan. She was rushed to the hospital...
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Eyewitness: Cops Shot Kimani Gray While He Was On the Ground, Then Threatened...
Independent journalist Ryan Devereaux interviewed 39-year-old Tishana King, the only known eyewitness to the police killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in East Flatbush last weekend, revealing new and...
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#Steubenville Rape Victim Receiving Death Threats
The worst is not yet behind the young woman who was raped by two Steubenville High football players in the football obsessed town of Steubenville, Ohio. CBS News reports that just one day after her...
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What You Won’t Hear About the #IraqWar from the Establishment
As we mourn the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, the establishment media elite seem to agree that the Iraq war was a mistake. But that is about as far as they will go in their criticism....
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Secret Recording Reveals NYPD Ordered Officer to Target Young Black Males for...
An NYPD whistle blower, Officer Pedro Serrano, presented damning evidence in a class-action lawsuit against stop-and-frisk, an NYPD policy the plaintiffs argue violates the civil rights of minorities...
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Support Grows for Steubenville’s Head Football Coach Despite His Role in Rape...
(Update at the bottom) A reader of Dispatches from the Underclass who grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, has alerted me to a protest planned for Saturday, March 30, in support of Steubenville High School...
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Public Education is Being Dismantled on the Backs of Black and Brown Children
Education “reformers” are seeing their privatization dreams come true as mass public school closings spread from one city to the next. Chicago is currently ground zero for this scheme with 54 schools...
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Unarmed Car Thief Shot Dead By Outspoken Gun Rights Advocate As He Drove Away
Stealing cars is wrong and there is no excuse for it. But does that mean car thieves deserve to be executed by armed vigilantes? Is a car worth a person’s life? One man seems to think so. The...
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93 Percent of Kids Arrested for Violating New Orleans Curfew Are Black
Nearly 93 percent of children stopped for curfew violations in New Orleans between 2009 and 2012 were black, reports Ramon Antonia Vargas at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. Of all the minors caught for...
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Newark Students to Walk Out in Protest of Discriminatory Budget Cuts and...
Students in Newark, New jersey, have had enough of the education “reform” agenda, so tomorrow (Tuesday, April 9) at noon they have planned a district-wide walk out. Students will meet at noon and march...
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Live Blog: Newark Student Walkout Happening Now
6:15pm ET: I’m still waiting to hear back from the offices of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Superintendent Cami Anderson. All three have yet to publicly comment on...
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US is Silent on Palestinian-American Child Held in Israeli Military Lockup...
The Associated Press reports that a 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy has been held in Israeli military lockup since last week after Israeli soldiers “burst[ed] into his family home and arrest[ed]...
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Guantanamo Hunger Striker: ‘I will not eat until they restore my dignity’
Every so often, the New York Times does something worthy of praise. This is one of those times. The Times has published the words of Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, an innocent man imprisoned at Guantánamo...
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Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Executed in the U.S.
Updated at the end of the post. Every 28 hours a black woman, man or child in the United States is executed by a person employed or protected by the US government according to a year-long...
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Raw Cell Phone Footage of West, Texas, Fertilizer Plant Explosion
I will warn you that this video is disturbing. A man not to far away from the initial fire at the plant is sitting in his car recording when suddenly he’s knocked over by the sheer force of a bomb-like...
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Collectively Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Arabs, Muslims Face Revenge...
The word “terrorism” is synonymous with “Middle Eastern” in this country, so much so that Arabs and Muslims faced harassment and assault even before any details about potential Boston Marathon bombing...
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James Holmes, Adam Lanza, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Double Standards
Authorities have yet to determine what motivated suspects Tamerlan, 26, and Dzhokhar, 19, Tsarnaev to set off two home-made bombs at Monday’s Boston Marathon, killing three and severely injuring over...
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US Media’s Boston Bombing Coverage is Dangerously Out of Control
Americans (myself included) are understandably desperate to know what motivated suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, to engage in mass murder at Monday’s Boston Marathon. But this...
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Anti-Immigrant Zealots Capitalize on Boston Bombings
Muslims, Arabs and more recently Chechens aren’t the only ones bearing the brunt of collective blame following the Boston Marathon bombing last week. Since learning that bombing suspects Dzhokhar and...
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